You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
I am only one, but still, I am one.
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one’s fellow men.
THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.